The most lavish hotel perks we could find1:14

We found the most lavish hotel perks, including a chauffeured Bentley, Evian spray mists, and luxury dog services.

August 19th 2017

a year ago

/display/newscorpaustralia.com/Web/NewsNetwork/Network News/World/

Have you ever found the keycard to your hotel room didn’t work? It might not have been an innocent glitch.Source:Getty Images

YOU know that frustrating moment you get to your hotel room door and the key card doesn’t work?

Maybe it has been demagnetised by your mobile phone — or perhaps a member of staff is trying to teach you a lesson.

A former hotel worker has revealed the secret ways hotel staff take their revenge on unsuspecting guests, The Sun reports.

In his tell-all memoir Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustlers and So-Called Hospitality, Jacob Tomsky said there were many ways staff got back at rude guests without them realising.

Mr Tomsky, who worked in the industry for a decade, described the tricks he and his colleagues used to avoid getting into trouble with their bosses.

Jacob Tomsky is a former hotel worker and author of the New York Times bestseller Heads in Beds.Source:Twitter

“If you’ve been having trouble accessing your room with your key card, it means you’ve p***ed off someone at the desk, and they’ll re-activate your key card when they see fit. It’s called ‘key-bombing’,” he told the UK’s Daily Express.

Bored, overworked and often under-appreciated staff had plenty of time to enact their revenge, which might include minibar raids and prank calls, Mr Tomsky said.

He said the wealthier the guests were, the more likely they were to be loud and wildly abusive, and celebrities were the worst of them all.

“A lot of people are watching Downton Abbey now and they think, ‘Oh, I’ve got servants, too!’,” he said.

“Especially the affluent, they treat people as they never would otherwise. Meanwhile, hardworking people — who might be getting screwed — won’t say anything.”

Here are six inventive ways hotel staff have wreaked revenge on rude guests.

Hotel staff have come up with a few creative ways to mess with the guests.Source:Supplied

KEY-BOMBING

Having trouble accessing your room with your key card? You’ve probably upset someone at the front desk. They love to watch with amusement when flustered guests return to get the key reactivated.